Tag Archives: Eastern Europe

EUROPEAN SOJOURN 40: Osijek, Croatia: “We Love You, Lord” (Day 17)

During the centuries of Turkish rule, Croatians learned to disguise their cathedrals inside buildings that were plain and unrecognizable as churches so they would not be shut down or destroyed. The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is in … Continue reading

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EUROPEAN SOJOURN 38: The pipes that Liszt played (Day 16)

      Kalocsa, Hungary. Experience for yourself the Bach recital we heard in the cathedral on their 4,668-pipe organ, an organ Franz Liszt enjoyed playing when he was in town.

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EUROPEAN SOJOURN 5 (Reprise): EUROPE passes

Almost daily I snapped a picture of the view through the porthole. I loved having it change without my doing anything–riverbanks, hillsides, pastel towns, bridges, steeples, other ships, walls of locks we were in. It was like being a child … Continue reading

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EUROPEAN SOJOURN 1 (Reprise): Getting underway Monday–Viking cruise down Rhine, Main and Danube Rivers, 2014

(Note: “Rhine” and “Main” rhyme. And no, “Rhine” is not pronounced “rain.”). Jessica and Jerry Renshaw, Long Beach, California I’m going to take a break from issues and intensity for a few weeks–but not from interesting people and cultures–and re-live … Continue reading

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European Sojourn: Introduction

Everyone warns us not to alert anonymous predators in cyberspace, on blog or Facebook, to the fact you will be out of town. So from mid-July to mid-August I posted re-runs while Jerry and I cruised down the Rhine, Main, … Continue reading

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